Pencil-holder



F. 1. VIERLING, F. n. BART'HOLO'MEW AND M.-H. SMITH.

PENCIL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT-30, 1919.

1,370,172... Patented Mal-4,1921,

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BARTI-IOLOMEW, AND MILO H. SMITH, or

\ APOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNORS TO STERLING SPECIALTIES MANUFACTURINGCOMPANY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, A. CORPORATION OIE MINNESOTA.

' PENCIL-HOLDER. I

Specification of Letters Patent; Pat t M -,1, 1921.

Application filed October 30, 1919. Serial No. 334,466.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK J. VIERLING, FRED R. BARTHOLOMEW, and MILO H.SMITH, citizens of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in thecounty of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Pencil- Holders, and we do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the lnvention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same. Our invention has for its object to provide anextremely simple and highly efficient pencil holder, and, to this end,it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafterdescribed and defined in the claim. I

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, likecharacters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings: s Figure 1 is a face view of the improvedpencil holder;

Fig. 2 is a view of the back of the same; Fig. 3 is a view correspondingto Fig. 2, but on an enlarged scale and. showing the pencil holderattached to a garment pocket and holding a pencil;

Fig. 4 is a view principally in section taken on the line 44 of Fig. 3;and

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view in section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 1,on an enlarged scale.

The improved pencil holder includes a coiled spring 6, attached to aflat body member 7 by cutting and pressing therefrom, loops 8, throughwhich the ends of said spring are inserted and then bent on them selves,as best shown in Fig. 5. It is highly important to note that the coiledspring 6 1s transversely secured to' the body member 7 in an obliqueposition so as to hold a pencil X in an upright position in respect tosaid body member, as shown in Fig. 3.

The inventiomas shown in the drawing, is designed to hold pencils,fountain pens, or both, in a garment pocket Z and to detachably securethe body member 7 therein, the same is provided with cooperating outerand inner clasp members 9 and 10, respectively. The outer clasp member9, as shown, is in the form of a disk havingits upper edge portionattached by a neck 11 to with the same.

the upper end of the body member 7. The.

inner clasp member 10 is cut from the body member 7, projects toward theneck 11 and is pressed outward toward the clasp member 9, as best shownin Fig. 5. On the lower edge of the clasp member 9 is a finger piece 12by which the said member may be moved, by bending the neck 11, towardand from the clasp member 10 to clamp the outer member of the pocket Zbetween the Same therefrom. The neck 11 also limits the downwardmovement ofthe bodym emher 7 into the pocket Z.

As shown, the body member 7, clasp members?) and 10, are all formed froma. single piece of sheet metal preferably of a relatively soft nature soas to permit the bending of the neck 11 during-the movement ofthe claspmember 9 toward and from the clasp member 10. [A longitudinally extendedrib 13 is pressed from the body memcooperating' clasp clasp members orto release the ber 7 and clasp member 10, at the junction. I

of the two, so as to glve the said clasp member' the required rigidity.

In applying the pencil X to the holder, the same is inserted endwise andtransversely through the spring 6 with its outer face in direct contactwith the body fmember 7 and with one of the convolutions of said springextending substantially 45 degrees across the inner face of the pencil,and

point contact with opposite sides of the pencil to hold the same againstswinging movement on the body member 7 and in contact By anchoring 1 thespring 6 only at its ends to the body 7 member 7, said spring will notonly yield in respect to its length when a pencil is inserted transversely therethrough, but will also yield in respect to the faceof thebody member 7.

In place of the clasp"910, the body member 7 may be provided with meansfor securing the same to a desk or other support.

I which convolution, together with the ad l g j acent convolutions ofthe spring, have four- It is, of course, understoodv that the .body'member 7 may take variousdifierent forms,

and that the face of" the clasp member 9 may be used for advertisingpurposes:

What we claim is e A pencil holder includinga body member, and a coiledspring extending transversely and obliquely across the body member :withV its ends anchored thereto, the inner portions of the convolutions ofthe s rlng belng substantially parallel to the si es of said body, saidspring being arranged to hold a pencil in an upright posltlon when-saidpencil is inserted endwise between certain of the convolutions of thespring and between the spring and the body member.

